Stars in Your Eyes is a 1956

1956 in film

The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers * February 5 - First showing of documentary films by...

 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 directed by Maurice Elvey.

Plot

As the world of vaudeville gradually loses its attraction, more and more entertainers are losing their jobs. In hopes of fixing their financial problems, a group of entertainers band together and buy a run-down theater to attract customers by showcasing their various talents on the grand opening night. Along the way their show is threatened by a gang of crooks but the show finishes successfully with each entertainer given a happy ending.

Cast

• Nat Jackley
  Nat Jackley
  Nat Jackley was an English comic actor starring in variety, film and pantomime from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s whose trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame and peculiar speech impediment made him a formidable and funny pantomime dame.His later years were spent as a character actor in...
  
  .....Jimmy Knowles
• Patricia Kirkwood
  Patricia Kirkwood
  Patricia Kirkwood was a British stage actress who appeared in numerous performances of dramas, cabaret, revues, music hall, variety, and pantomimes. She also performed on radio, television, and movies...
  
  .....Sally Bishop
• Bonar Colleano
  Bonar Colleano
  Bonar Colleano was an American-born British stage and motion-picture performer.-Early life:Colleano was born Bonar Sullivan in New York City. Following childhood experiences with the Ringling Brothers Circus and in his family's famous circus, he entered films in 1944...
  
  .....David Laws
• Dorothy Squires
  Dorothy Squires
  Dorothy Squires was a Welsh vocalist. Among her recordings were versions of "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening", "I'm in the Mood for Love", "Anytime", "If You Love Me " and "And So to Sleep Again".-Biography:...
  
  .....Ann Hart
• Jack Jackson
  Jack Jackson
  Jack Jackson may refer to:* Jack Jackson , bandleader and disc jockey* Jack Jackson , US cartoonist Jaxon* Jack Jackson , American football player...
  
  .....Cecil Rigby
• Vera Day
  Vera Day
  -Selected filmography:* Dance Little Lady * The Crowded Day * It's a Great Day * Quatermass 2 * Hell Drivers 1957)* The Prince and the Showgirl * Too Many Crooks * And the Same to You...
  
  .....Maureen Temple
• Hubert Gregg
  Hubert Gregg
  Hubert Gregg was a BBC broadcaster, writer and stage actor. At the end of his life he was probably best known for the BBC Radio 2 'oldies' shows A Square Deal and Thanks For The Memory...
  
  .....Crawley Walters
• Joan Sims
  Joan Sims
  Joan Sims was an English actress best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, and latterly for playing Madge Hardcastle in As Time Goes By.-Early life:...
  
  .....Walter's Secretary
• Ernest Clark
  Ernest Clark
  Ernest Clark was a British actor of stage, television and film.-Early life:Clark was the son of a master builder in Maida Vale, and was educated nearby at St Marylebone Grammar School. After leaving school he became a reporter on a local newspaper in Croydon...
  
  .....Ronnie
• Gerald Harper
  Gerald Harper
  Gerald Harper is an actor, best known for his work on television, having played the title roles in Adam Adamant Lives! and Hadleigh ....
  
  .....Dicky
• Meier Tzelniker
  Meier Tzelniker
  Meier Tzelniker was a British actor.He appeared mainly in Yiddish theatre, but was sometimes a character actor in English language plays and films, such as It Always Rains On Sunday and more notably Expresso Bongo ....
  
  .....Maxie Jago
• Gabrielle Brune
  Gabrielle Brune
  -Selected filmography:* He Found a Star * Tomorrow We Live * A Run for Your Money * Mandy * The Wedding of Lilli Marlene * The Titfield Thunderbolt * Three Steps to the Gallows...
  
  .....Effie
• Aubrey Dexter.....Farrow
• Roger Avon
  Roger Avon
  Roger Avon was a British film and television actor.Some of his television appearances include Hancock's Half Hour, Dad's Army, When the Boat Comes In, Department S, Doctor Who, serials , Randall and Hopkirk , Our Friends in the North and Blackadder the Third...
  
  ... Grimes